Schaumburg Opinion
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Illinois: Get moving on funding for disabledOct 26, 2015 5:00 am - My son, Bryan, is a happy, loving, hardworking 17-year-old with moderate to severe autism, who attends a NSSEO school in Palatine. In the two-plus years he has been at h...
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Editorial: Roosevelt's emphatic and welcome commitment to the suburbsOct 20, 2015 11:00 pm - Roosevelt University President Ali Malekzadeh had a refreshing message for Schaumburg and the suburbs this week: "We're back." Not that the university had abandoned its ...
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Government can't be run like businessOct 20, 2015 5:03 am - Every time I hear someone say government should run like a business it makes me cringe. Government is NOT a business, it is a SERVICE. Could any business survive with a...
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Police can't make up for bad parentsOct 20, 2015 5:03 am - I believe that until people who create a child (you'll notice I didn't say "parent a child") accept the responsibility of parenting that child, the crime rate in America...
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Leave use of guns to trained authoritiesOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - I am shocked and appalled by recent calls in the press to arm teachers in light of all the tragic campus shootings. I'm also concerned about calls for the expansion of ...
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Editorial: Dist. 211 should find creative alternatives to transgender planOct 12, 2015 11:00 pm - The practice of high school students changing in the locker room has always been complicated for some students. Whether you feel you're too skinny or overweight or just ...
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Hillary put herself ahead of nationOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - Thus far, millions of words have been uttered or written about presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton's, private server and email operation. The words of the chattering...
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Providing jobs can end cycle of imprisonmentOct 05, 2015 1:00 am - This country is on the precipice of ending the failed "War on Drugs" but apparently leaving the problem of recidivism unsolved. With more than 50 percent returning to ...
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Walker's departure a start for the GOPOct 01, 2015 1:00 am - Hopefully, Scott Walker dropping out of the Republican presidential campaign is a sign that his brand of KochBrothers-backed, right-wing conservatism is on the wane. H...
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'Fixing' Social Security is easySep 16, 2015 1:00 am - Recently there have been a number of articles about the need to "fix" Social Security. One would hope that by now most people would know that this is a totally phony iss...